Ukrainian pianist, composer, conductor and arranger. Honored Artist of Ukraine, Professor of the Chamber Ensemble Department at the Lviv National Music Academy.
Biography.
After graduating from the Stryi Musical Seven-Year School in 1959, she entered the Lviv Music College, graduating in 1963 with a degree in piano and music theory. In the same year, she entered the Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad Conservatory, graduating in 1968 with a degree in piano from Professor Kalmykov V. O. In 1968-1971, she worked as an appointed lecturer at the Krasnodar Institute of Culture at the Department of Piano. From 1971 to the present day, she has been working at the Lysenko National Music Academy, first as a concertmaster at the violin department, and since 1978 as a lecturer at the chamber ensemble department.
In 1990-1991, she completed advanced courses in organ and harpsichord in Minsk, Kazan, Moscow, and Zurich.
In 1996, she was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of Ukraine and the academic title of associate professor. Since 2004, she has been working as a professor at the Department of Chamber Ensemble and Quartet. She is constantly active as a performer, performing in various genres as a soloist, ensemble player and concertmaster.
Scientific, methodological and creative activity
Performance work
Throughout the entire period after her studies, Stanko has been leading an intense concert life. She has performed in the halls of Lviv, Kyiv, other cities of Ukraine, Poland, and the post-Soviet republics. There she gave chamber concerts in which she performed as a pianist, organist, and harpsichordist with leading musicians from Ukraine, Poland, and Russia. Among them are People's Artist of Ukraine L. Shutko, concertmaster of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra P. Cegielski, winner of international competitions Anna Savytska, and domist M. Mikheiev.
Together with the singer O. Chibisov, Stanko introduced the audience to the vocal cycles of Gustav Mahler for the first time in Lviv. As an arranger, she arranged for violin, viola (cello), and piano the "Paraphrase on Themes of Gustav Mahler's Symphonies" - "Maleriana" (parts 1, 2, and 3).
She frequently performs with the Lviv chamber orchestras Perpetuum mobile and Akademia, and the Trembita choir, playing the organ or harpsichord.
At the Conservatory, she performed in duets, trios, and quintets with teachers B. Kaskiv, O. Kohut, L. Tchaikovska, O. Andreyko, and Y. Sokolovskyi, performing world classical, contemporary, and Ukrainian chamber music.
From 1977 to 1987 she played in an ensemble with violinist Lidia Shutko. On behalf of the Soyuz Concert and Ukrconcert, this ensemble performed in all republican philharmonic societies, as well as in Lviv and Leningrad.
She has repeatedly participated in the festivals of the Lviv Philharmonic: "Virtuosos of Lviv", "Mozart Days in Lviv", "Days of Music by Bach, Handel, Scarlatti"; in the festival of "Sacred Music" (Warsaw, Krakow), in memory of V. Barvinsky, the choir festival "Golden-Domed Kyiv", "Organum" (Sumy).
Since 1990, she has been performing as an organist and harpsichordist at the Lviv House of Organ and Chamber Music, as a member of chamber orchestras: The Shevchenko Prize-winning Honored Choir of Ukraine "Trembita", the chamber orchestra "Perpetuum mobile", "Leopolis", "Lviv Virtuosi", and the choir "Homin". She participated in master classes in Zurich (Switzerland), Minsk, Kazan, and Moscow.
Her solo and ensemble concerts are regularly held in the Hall of Organ and Chamber Music, where she has performed as an organist or harpsichordist with violinists D. Chassard (French Ambassador to Ukraine), concertmaster of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra P. Cegielski, Lidia Shutko, and Anna Savytska. Among these concerts are also thematic programs with T. Shupiana - "Regency Music of England" and "Concerts of Sacred Music".
She took part in concerts dedicated to the 2000th anniversary of the Nativity of Christ - "Italian Ancient Sonata" (L. Shutko - violin, A. Stanko - organ), in a solo concert of violinist A. Savytska (A. Stanko - organ). As part of an instrumental quartet and trio, she participates in concerts "Carols of the World" and "Music of Lent" - annually; in concerts for the diplomatic corps of Japan, for the Embassy of the Netherlands in honor of the national holiday "Queen Beatrix's Birthday".
Performed the organ part in a concert of works by Ukrainian composers in Rome in the Church of St. Mary of the Minerva (2001) on the occasion of the "Pilgrimage of gratitude to the Holy Father for his visit to Ukraine (O. Kozarenko - "Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ").
The instrumental quartet consisting of T. Shupian, N. Bohdanov (flute), T. Demianchyk (cello), A. Stanko (harpsichord) often performs in Lviv and the region, participates in the Organum Festival (Sumy).
Scientific and methodological work
Anna Stanko performed the transcription of digital bass in Handel's oratorio "Dixit Dominus", digital bass in "Psalm No. 51" and in "Cantata No. 140" by J.S. Bach. She has written reviews for the methodological works "Violin Sonatas by M. Skoryk and Problems of Their Interpretation", "Development of Technical Skills of Students of the Orchestral Faculty of the String Department", "Specifics of Teaching the Subject "Chamber Ensemble" in Special Music Schools and Music Colleges" and others.
